the vally is followed by boulder, colorado, framingham, massachusetts, huntsville, alabama, and on theutskirts of the silicon valley, the san francisco-san mateo-redwood city area. congratulations, you're the number 19th good eveningiest area in the country. >> not bad. >> no. >> huntsville is the nasa thing. that's good. >>> researchers are discovering how genes make some people smarter than others. a new study in the journal "nature" finds intelligence is not connected to one gene but, rather, a lot of small genetic variations. scientists estimate that these genetic variations account for about 50% of the differences in intelligence from one person to another. contrary to how they are marketed, it appears soy supplements do not help treat symptoms of menopause. miami researchers tested almost 250 women and found the pills did not reduce bone loss, improve sleep or ease hot flashes. doctors have been looking for alternative treatments for menopause ever since studies showed estrogen can increase the risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular problems. >>> an electronic implant that ease

works in the fields and the sunnyvale region has plenty of those z next is boulder, colorado and huntsvillebama. and framingham, massachusetts and durham, north carolina. and san francisco has only half as many geeks as silicon valley. >> very scientific survey. >> yes. totally. >> thank you. >> and a congressional tradition going back almost 200 years coming to an end. why the white house page program will be soon history. >> and from 7 on your side, do you need those extended warranties on new cars? that is a question i'll be answering today. we'll talk about online schools to train to you teach english oversea autos and a cheaper imac is lacking some bells and whistles. >>> when you buy a new car, maybe you'd consider an extended warranty. >> now advice on when it's worth it or not. you're answering viewer questions through facebook and twitter today. >> that is right. let's begin with question number one from darren b, who asks why are food prices rising? it's a great question. you know they're going up. and let me tell you why. number one reason is energy costs. it costs a ton of money

. >> the head of a fringe mormon sect that practices polygamy began his life sentence in a huntsvilletexas, prison. warren jeffs was convicted of sexually assaulting two members of his church. the 55-year-old called them his child brides. he will not be eligible for parole for 45 years. >> a controversial picture that has become a political lorr rorschacht test. most agree it's an unflattering photo. but the consensus really ends there. >> that strange picture and the queen of rage headline. >> i think it's outrageous. i think it's a disgrace on their part. >> newsweek had its choice of photos. these are the out-takes not chosen. why did they chose this picture isn't editor, tina brown, tweeted michele bachmann's intensity is galvanizing voters in iowa right now and newsweek's cover captures that. >> hi, there. >> critics argue it's another example of newsweek portraying conservative women unfairly. remember these covers of sarah palin? and now this, a cover so unflattering, even the national organization for women who say they want to see bachmann defeated, is rallying to her defense

local media is reporting that jeffs is on a plane, on his way to huntsville, next, where he will seven sentence at a prison there. before they began deliberating the jury had to hear more of the graphic ought yes tapes. you can hear jeffs telling five young girls to "set aside all your inhibitions," and this is as he instructed them adding "you are about to do something very important." the tapes were part of what cops seized during a raid on the polygamist's compound in 2008 in texas. and jeffs is meticulous record keeper and documented sexual encounters in both writing and on tape. those records ended up with prosecutors and now the 55-year-old jeffs will not be eligible for parole until he is 100 years old. >>shepard: in his religion you have to write it down for the pearly gates. he refused to participate in the trial. are the prosecutors concerned about an appeal? >>guest: the lead prosecutor says that he is not worried. however, jeffs did have a conviction overturned for accessory to rape in 2007 and this case is different. and what you are seeing is a photo obligated by the salt

. >> 55 years old, now he goes to huntsville. not a great place. >> texas. what wiehl was the primary piece of evidence that convicted him. >> two pieces of evidence one was d.n.a. with a 15-year-old that he fathered a child with. the other was a tape that they played in the trial with the 12-year-old where you could hear him sexually assaulting this 12-year-old and the jury here. >> who made that. >> i don't know whether the police made it some of the other things himself. >> i don't know who recorded it, but it's warren jeffs on the tape telling the 12-year-old, instructing her how to sexually please him and saying if you sexually please me and these are the ways you can do it you will also be pleasing god. bye bye warren jeffs. >> the jury took 35 minutes? >> maybe 30, 35 exactly. >> 10 women, two men. >> bus florida casey anthony? texas is a whole different ballgame now. those people are not going to say well, warren jeffs his mom was mean to him when he was 6. >> evaluated. let's say he will be preaching to a whole different congregation. >> he did a re

there were many, many other tornadoes that touched down in places like birmingham, huntsville, chattanoogatennessee and 32 people d7 peop. the second one, may 22nd to the 27th, this one in the midwest and the southeast. remember, joplin, missouri, can't forget that one, that was a $7 billion disaster with this event. and, of course, joplin just started school this week and they're doing that in a mall because their school was destroyed. >> they were determined to, you know, try and resume some kind of normalcy for the kids at least. >> yeah. good to know they're back in school and learning. an estimated 180 tornadoes from that outbreak and 177 deaths overall. and that ef-5 that hit joplin, the strongest to hit the u.s. since modern record keeping began. this one, the drought and the wildfires burning across the southern plains states and the southwest. look at the pictures of the wildfires. who could forget the wallow fire in arizona, new mexico, arizona, southern kansas and western arkansas and louisiana. all dealing with the terrible conditions and as much as 75 to 63% of all range and p

next on the list is bolder, colorado, followed by huntsville, alabama, framingham, massachusetts, and durham, north carolina. the san francisco-san mateo region has half as many geeks as silicon valley. it's number 19 on the list. >> on that list, all areas with high-tech communities. congratulations, i guess. right? >> yeah. we're putting out the help wanted sign for geeks here in san francisco. >>> 5:26. thousands of passengers left stranded by a computer glitch that bart still can't get to the bottom of. next at 5:30, how the trains are running this morning. >> i'm tomas roman. at the san francisco branch of the new york stock exchange. the opening bell is a little over an hour away. and investors here are concerned that fluctuating markets in asia could signal a bad day for wall street. i'll have more coming up. >> also ahead, mayor ed lee gets a harsh welcome about the race to keep his job. >> if you are heading out of town, across the nation, everything is smooth sailing. we'll have thousanders and thunderstorms heading up -- showers and thunderstorms to the northeast. rain loca

framingham, massachusetts, and huntsville, alabama.isco-san mateo- redwood city area was 19th. not bad. >> being a geek is okay, right? >> we're all geeks. if only we were that smart. working on that, though. >>> what are the chances of finding something worth $1,000 in your backyard? >> well, a girl in torrance did it. 8-year-old april is an aspiring golfer who was outside practicing her pitching, i guess, and she found something shiny on her lawn. she didn't know what to make of it so she brought it to her parents. >> i was practicing and i ran out of golf balls. there were a few over here and there was something shiny and i picked it up. i thought it was glass but then i showed my dad. >> michelle wii in the making there. her fare ran the item along a glass door. -- her father ran the item along a glass door. a jeweler confirmed there was a 1ct diamond there. >> sell it and get golf lessons. >> somebody is walking around with a ring with nothing in there right now. >> probably the neighbor going, oh, my god! [ laughter ] >> leave it

we have four offices that serve the state of alabama, and speed is in the state served by a huntsvillece and so we are just in the south of birmingham. from there if we started talking about the possibility and the likelihood of a strong to the long trek tornadoes three days in advance. that is unheard of starting out in my career years ago, a long time ago. that information then gets really to the managers, to our television partners come to the public through our web sites through social media come through our forecasts and other services. we also have an 800 megahertz system we can talk directly to the emergency management with. from then a, when we have to we started getting into the sand, people took notice. the night before the event actually on folded we have schools that closed across the state of alabama in anticipation. the morning of the event, we had the state emergency management office at the feet like a land fall hurricane was about to occur. the governor for the state of alabama actually signed an emergency declaration or proclamation about the oncoming weather. so, wha

we have four offices that serve the state of alabama, and speed is in the state served by a huntsvillece and so we are just in the south of birmingham. from there if we started talking about the possibility and the likelihood of a strong to the long trek tornadoes three days in advance. that is unheard of starting out in my career years ago, a long time ago. that information then gets really to the managers, to our television partners come to the public through our web sites through social media come through our forecasts and other services. we also have an 800 megahertz system we can talk directly to the emergency management with. from then a, when we have to we started getting into the sand, people took notice. the night before the event actually on folded we have schools that closed across the state of alabama in anticipation. the morning of the event, we had the state emergency management office at the feet like a land fall hurricane was about to occur. the governor for the state of alabama actually signed an emergency declaration or proclamation about the oncoming weather. so, wha

we have four offices that serve the state of alabama, and speed is in the state served by a huntsvillece and so we are just in the south of birmingham. from there if we started talking about the possibilityand the likelihood of a strong to the long trek tornadoes three days in advance. that is unheard of starting out in my career years ago, a long time ago. that information then gets really to the managers, to our television partners come to the public through our web sites through social media ce through our forecasts and other services. we also have an 800 megahertz system we can talk directly to the emergency management with. from then a, when we have to we started getting into the sand, people took notice. the night before the event actually on folded we have schools that closed across the state of alabama in anticipation. the morning of the event, we had the state emergency management office at the feet like a land fall hurricane was about to occur. the governor for the state of alabama actually signed an emergency declaration or proclamation about the oncoming weather. so, what h

is over. >> reporter: after 20 miles, the ordeal finally ended just three blocks from downtown huntsville can you believe that it lasted for 20 miles? we reached out to ford motor company about the case and they told us we cannot comment on the matter as we have not had a chance to review the details. we are not aware of any safety issue with this cruise control system. he was trying too go to the store to buy his grandmother a gift. we asked that never happened? the best gift of all was the fact that he was safe. >> i bet, peter. thank you so much peter alexander. what a story. also coming up this morning, dramatic rescue of a 17-year-old trapped for 30 minutes in a sand tunnel he was digging suddenly caved in. we'll be talking to him this morning exclusively but first this is "today" on nbc. "today" . he>>just ahead, the judge ordered casey anthony back to florida suddenly stepped down. >> after your local news. >> good morning. it's 7:26. i'm laura garcia-cannon. a spree of thefts is a real drain on a city. police say thieves are stealing storm grates in vallejo. in fact, the city says

it is unfair for a company in huntsville to follow rules and have its competitor across the street not follow its rules and win the contract as a result. final point, i know it is controversial in washington, but i am a co-sponsor of a distillation to end what many call -- of a bill to end anchor babies. i believe the front door of illegal immigration is what built this country. the more we allow a blind eye to the back door, the more we've invite more of it. i know there is a dispute about whether legislation will pass, but send it to the supreme court. let them make the decision about citizenship or not. i will live with the results, but it cannot believe that is what the founding fathers intended in that section of the constitution. we have a lot of work to do, and it has to start with the white house that is serious about closing the back door. we do not have one. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> track the latest campaign contributions with c-span's campaign 2012. it to navigate the political landsca

[applause] >> my name is beth strange, of huntsville. why is medicaid so much less than medicare?ere are so many more people on medicaid. what is the difference? >> great question. the main difference is all seniors hitting that age going to medicare, medicaid is really for the low-income. it includes both children, low- income and low-income families, as well as nursing home care. some medicare, because it is primarily health care versus just financial health, and health care continues to grow at a fairly high quit, that is what is driving medicare going forward. and can i make a point? you hear a lot of efforts that try to scare seniors in america today. the problem we have, medicare is so important, but it runs out of money in 12 years. its own accountants say it becomes insolvent in 12 years. so if congress does not act, medicare ins itself. what we're proposing is we have got to act now to keep that program in place, both for these seniors and for the next generation as well. what we're, republicans, our budget, are proposing is if you're 55 years or older, there is no change

. >>> in alabama, lightning is being blamed for starting a fire in athens north of huntsville. >>> andd for an aware out, before an aquarium worker helped

i can tell you that the huntsville weather service office issued 20 separate tornado warnings just fromounty, 20 separate tornado warnings, and the favorite thing that they told me was they would get on and say morgan county we are issuing another tornado warning for your county. and one thing we do, we don't want to crywolf, with the warnings of the weather service has done that is something that you are not warning for the entire county any longer it is just a section of the county the storm is and will be affecting. we are one of the ones in the state that only try to send our sirens in that warning area and so what happens withhe big storms that came through, we are big on redundancy of our systems. if one system goes down, we have a backup system in its place. so, what we have in place for four different tv stations that we could monitor the radar. we got access to two different feeds on the over the internet from the weher service and a commercial service that we depend on. well, the cable went out, so that took out four of the systems there. in the internet went out. so, we could

not only is it illegal, but it is unfair for a company in huntsville to follow the rules and have itsin washington. but i am a co-sponsor of legislation to end what many people called angkor babies. when those moms come across the border -- [applause] i really believe that front door of legal immigration is what built this country. the more we allow and turn a blind eye at the back door, the more we invite more of that. i know the constitution is that dispute whether that legislation should pass. i say to send it to the supreme court. let them make the decision about citizenship or not. i will live with the results. i do not believe that that is what our founding fathers intended in that section of the constitution. we have a lot of work to do. it has to start with the white house. >> because of technical problems, we were unable to bring you the last few minutes of this event. to learn more about capitol hill, you can get c-span's congressional directory. you will find contact information for senators and representatives, including twitter addresses. you will also find district men's

this event took place at a veterans conference center in huntsville, texas. it is a little over an hour. >> let's give all these folks around of applause. [applause] >> it is my pleasure to introduce my friend and our representative, kevin brady. kevin considers it an honor to represent the eighth district of the great state of texas in washington d.c. a leader in congress, kevin is the senior member of the house ways and means committee, chairman of the trade subcommittee, and vice chairman and top republican of the joint economic committee. as the deputy whip for the gop and a board member of the conservative republican study committee, kevin is actively involved in the new conservative house majority's effort to protect the unborn, in bad luck regis let reject legislation and regulation, and cut federal spending. he has been named a hero of the taxpayers, a defender of liberty, a small business champion, and a super friend of the seniors. above all, kevin never moved to washington. he commutes to his job at the capitol and he and his wife kathy are able to

. -- in huntsville, alabama, go ahead.aller: it is really having an effect on me because i get disability and i am not working. it is hard to even think about how people could just play with our lives like this. host: who is playing with your life? caller: the politicians. host: what you want them to do? caller: want them to come together and work with the president, give them that opportunity to do his job. work with him to help him regulate this economy. it is all about working together. host: diane, what is your field from your does a benefit to the benefits -- your disability benefits? caller: my medicine, i cannot even afford to pay for my medicine. i am a diabetic. i had triple bypass surgery. i take all types of medication. and i cannot afford to keep my insulin. this is really taking a toll on my life personally. and i know it is hurting other people in my situation. host: die and calling in on the under $50,000 line. from maryland, how was this impacting your and its decisions? caller: [unintelligible] they want t

later this afternoon we get a little more heating towards nashville and huntsville when things may geteas of unsettled weather in the northeast, we'll see some afternoon storminess and southern florida will as well and the hazy, hot and humid conditions continue. check out some of the high temperatures. actually phoenix getting into the act during the monsoon, rare to get up and over 110. other parts of texas, louisiana, across cajun country seeing temperatures well over 100. 107 in dallas again today. it has been brutal. didn't break your record of 100 degree days plus, but now you're back at it. it's like having a hitting streak of, you know, 50 games, not getting a hit one game and having another hitting streak of 30 or 40. 86 degrees for the high temperature in new york city. 94 degrees not too cool in atlanta. all right. here we go, tropical depression, pointing this out for the past couple days, heading foot western caribbean, about to skirt the coastline of honduras, may become a tropical storm before it makes official landfall in belize tomorrow. the main cause with this will b

. -- in huntsville, alabama, go ahead. caller: it is really having an effect on me because i get disability and im not working. it is hard to even tnk about how people could just play with our lives like this. host: who is playing with your life? caller: the politicians. host: what you want them to do? caller: want them to come together and work with the president, give them that opportunity to do his job. work with him to help him regulate this economy. it is all about working together. host: diane, what is your field from your does a benefit to the benefits -- your disability benefits? caller: my medicine, i cannot even afford to pay for my medicine. i a a diabetic. i had triple bypass surgery. i take all types of medication. and i cannot afford to keep my insulin. this is really taking a toll on my life personally. and i know it is hurting other people in my situation. host: die and calling in on the under $50,000 line. from maryland, how was this impacting your and its decisions? caller: [unintelligible] they want to m